In my first post in this series, I briefly discussed my experience of reading the book The High Performance HMI Handbook, the initial skepticism I felt and how I started to come around to their ideas. In this and subsequent posts, I’ll be sharing a few of the concepts the authors discuss. These are concepts that seem so simple but they aren’t often used. And yet, if they were implemented in our HMIs it would go a long way toward improving the usefulness of our HMIs for us and our operators.

            I’ve recently been reading a book entitled The High Performance HMI Handbook. Our Director of Engineering requested that I tackle this one and report back. As an integration services company that has developed hundreds of HMI applications of various shapes, sizes, complexity, and industries, we are always on the lookout for new concepts and ideas that we can implement to make our customer’s HMIs better. We want to be continually improving our practices and standards (after all, as a previous post said, our industry is always advancing, and so must our standards). So my mission is to read this book and see what we could learn and apply.